Pentaphenylantimony was reacted with 4-acetyl-1,3-dihydroxybenzene in toluene at elevated temperature to obtain (4-acetyl-3-hydroxyphenoxy)tetraphenylantimony in 93% yield. According to X-ray diffraction data, the antimony atom in (4-acetyl-3-hydroxy-phenoxy)tetraphenylantimony has a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal configuration. The Sb-O and Sb-C distances are 2.237(1) and 2.112(1), 2.114(2), 2.118(2), 2.170(2) Angstrom, respectively, and the CSbO angle is 177.86(5)degrees.